Outlook.com introduced by Microsoft is a new personal email service that reimagines the way that people use email from a cleaner look, to fewer and less obtrusive ads, to new connections to social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.   Microsoft’s corporate vice president of Windows Live, Chris Jones said Outlook.com builds off the power of the Outlook people have long used on their PCs and Macs, has a fresh, clean user interface that gets the clutter out of inboxes and takes away display ad

Pulse, an elegant news reading application originally designed for mobile devices, and now available on the Web. Pulse incorporates colorful panning story bars and fills them with content from sources you select.   Today more than 15 million people around the world use the Pulse app on every major mobile platform, including Windows Phone. The app has grown to offer content from virtually every major U.S. publisher and a growing list of international ones. Its visual style and simple navigation

Today marks an important milestone in the Windows 8 project. The Windows 8 team is proud to share with you that a short while ago we started releasing Windows 8 to PC OEM and manufacturing partners. This means our next milestone will be the availability of exciting new models of PCs loaded with Windows 8 and online availability of Windows 8 on October 26, 2012.   Back when we first demonstrated Windows 8 in May 2011, we described it as “reimagining Windows, from the chipset to the experience,”

Howdy! Today is the day we’ve all been waiting for. I’m proud to announce that Windows Server 2012 has been released to manufacturing. That means the final code is complete and we are delivering it to our hardware and software vendor partners this week. We will also make the software available to our volume licensing customers in the next couple of weeks.   Get out your calendars and free up some time on September 4. That’s when Windows Server 2012 will be generally available for evaluati

Microsoft is continuing to eke out the Windows 8 news.     The latest tidbit is Windows 8's exact availability date is going to be October 26. (The last we heard at the Microsoft Partner Conference a week ago is it would be in "late October.")   October 26 will be the date Windows 8 will be available preloaded on new PCs and also to those purchasing it through one of the upgrade programs Microsoft has announced recently. Based on previous Microsoft statements, it also seems October 26 wil

Microsoft yesterday announced the availability of Office 2013 Customer Preview, you can download it here     clicking on Word 2013 brings you to the following page,     and then you can click on Try It to see what downloads are available, there aer versions for Home, Small Business, Enterprise and Enterprise Preview.     cheers niall

We set out to make it as easy as possible for everyone to upgrade to Windows 8. Starting at general availability, if your PC is running Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 you will qualify to download an upgrade to Windows 8 Pro for just $39.99 in 131 markets. And if you want, you can add Windows Media Center for free through the “add features” option within Windows 8 Pro after your upgrade.   When you use Windows.com to purchase an upgrade to Windows 8 Pro, the Windows 8 Upgrade Assistant

Summary: Microsoft’s new Surface tablets are exquisitely engineered, and no one can accuse them of being me-too products. Yesterday’s launch was impressive, but it also left many questions unanswered. Monday, at an invitation-only media event in Los Angeles, Microsoft got the tech press to do something almost unprecedented: wait with eager anticipation for a Microsoft product announcement.     Even more astonishing is that the reveal lived up to the hype.   They are exquisitely engineere